ASTJEA. 453 



Hah. NiLGiRi Plateau, 7000 ft. {Ham])son\ 3 <S , type. Ewp. 

 30 millim. 



This may be an extreme form of A. ineonspicua. 



956. Asura inconspicua. 



Lyclene inconspicua, Moore, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 32 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. 



p. Ill ; Kirby, Oat. Het. p. 305. 

 Lyclene oUiqua, Hmpsn. 111. Het. B. M. viii. p. 51, pi. 139. f. 25 (1891) ; 



id. Moths Ind. ii. p. 114 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 305. 



Head and thorax orange-red ; palpi and legs slightly streaked 

 with fuscous ; vertex of head, shoulders, patagia, and mesothorax 

 with fuscous spots ; abdomen greyish fuscous, the anal tuft ochreous. 

 Fore wing orange-red ; a subbasal black point ; the costa black 

 towards base; an antemedial diifused oblique fuscous band not 

 reaching costa or inner margin ; a rather broad oblique medial line ; 

 a discoidal spot ; the veins of terminal area strongly streaked 

 with fuscous to near termen, sometimes conjoined into an irregular 

 fuscous band ; a terminal series of points. Hind wing pale ochreous. 



Ab. 1. obliqua. Ochreous yellow. 



Hab. "K.India," 1 (5 type; Nilgiris (Cardew, Rampson), 3 c?, 

 2 2 ■> typ6 obliqua. Exp. 30-32 millim. 



957. Asura liyporhoda, n, sp. (Plate XXXI. fig. 10.) 



cJ . Orange ; extremities of palpi, tibite, and tarsi black. Pore 

 wing with black points at base of costa and cell ; an oblique sinuous 

 fuscous antemedial band ; a medial band angled inwards in cell and 

 touching the antemedial band, then bent outwards and touching the 

 postmedial band above inner margin ; the postmedial band composed 

 £)f confluent streaks, its outer edge angled at veins 6 and 4, then 

 incurved. Underside of fore wing with the disk suffused with 

 crimson. 



The type has vein 11 of fore wing curved and approximated to 

 12, in other specimens it anastomoses with 12. 



Hab. SiEREA Leone {Clements), 1 c? type. Exp. 20 millim. 



958. Asura rubricosa. 



Lyclene ruhricosa, Moore, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 30, pi. 3. f. 1 ; Hmpsn. Moths 



Ind. ii. p. Ill ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 305. 

 Lyclene curvifascia, Hmpsn. IE. Het. B. M. viii. p. 49, pi. 139. f. 17 ; 



Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 305. 

 Lyclene ochracea, Hmpsn. 111. Het. B. M. viii. p. 51, pi. 139. f. 26 ; Kirby, 



Cat. Het. p. 305. 



Head and thorax orange-red ; shoulders, patagia, mesothorax, 

 and tibiae with fuscous spots ; abdomen ochreous. Pore wing 

 orange-red ; a subbasal black spot ; the costa streaked with black 

 towards base ; an antemedial diifused irregularly dentate line bent 

 inwards to costa, then oblique ; an oblique medial band nearly 

 straight or slightly curved and irregular ; a discoidal spot ; a post- 



